Backtracking: The Way of a Naturalist

Levin, Ted

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ISBN 10: 0930031083 ISBN 13: 9780930031084

Published by Chelsea Green Publishing, Chelsea, Vermont, 1987

Language: English

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Very clean hardcover first edition (stated "First Printing") in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean gray boards with burgundy cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean and bright with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Wonderful illustrations by Joan Waltermire. 220 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, tiny poke to spine; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A first-rate writer naturalist blends sharp observations and a sense of wonder at the diversity of life on this planet.

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Title

Backtracking: The Way of a Naturalist

Publisher

Chelsea Green Publishing, Chelsea, Vermont

Publication Date

1987

Language

English

ISBN 10

0930031083

ISBN 13

9780930031084

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Joan Waltermire, Illustrator

Edition

First Edition, First Printing.

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good+

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Ted Levin "traces his own development as a naturalist from his boyhood roots on suburban Long Island to his present life in northern New England. Along the way he introduces us to all sorts of wild creatures from red-backed salamanders, cicadas, and rattlesnakes to manatees, coyotes, and bald eagles."

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A collection of 16 short essays about wildlife encounters during naturalist Levin's career. Primarily about the Northeast, it includes pieces on amphibian life cycles, snakes, cicadas, predatory birds, coyotes, a captured weasel, and a vacation in the Florida Everglades. Intertwining biological facts, historical data, regional information, personal experience, and a dash of humor, the author presents a strong conservation message. An excellent addition to such high caliber nature writings as Roger Swain's Earthly Pleasures and Field Days: journal of an itinerant biologist. Strongly recommended for collections serving general readers and YAs. Frank Reiser, Biology Dept., Nassau Community Coll., Garden City, N.Y.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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